These words,
which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and
you are
to teach
themcarefully to your
children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when
you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you
get up.

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Another
State Considers Arming School Staff

““There are a few ways to respond. Maybe they’re right. Then the
answer would be to outlaw public schools. They’ve proven themselves
to be dangerous places. After all, how many home-schooled kids have
been murdered in these recent massacres? Not many. If all these kids
were home-schooled, they might still be alive today.”

Tennessee is the latest state to consider legislation that will
require schools in the state to have an armed staff member at all
times, something that until now has been prohibited. Most Tennessee
high schools do have “resource officers,” which are essentially
armed police officers, but a bill being proposed by State Senator
Frank Niceley in the next legislative session would also allow
teachers or other members of administrative staffs to carry
concealed weapons if the school could not afford a “resource
officer.” His bill would require that all schools have at least one
armed official on campus. TPMreportedthat
Niceley recommends against using a uniformed officer and favors
armed school personnel:

“‘Say some madman comes in. The first person he would probably try
to take out was the resource officer. But if he doesn’t know which
teacher has training, then he wouldn’t know which one had [a gun],’
Niceley said by phone. ‘These guys are obviously cowards anyway and
if someone starts shooting back, they’re going to take cover, maybe
go ahead and commit suicide like most of them have.’”

Liberals claim that there’s an inconsistency in conservatives’
thinking about arming school teachers. They point out that
conservatives are so critical of public schools, calling them
“indoctrination camps,” yet all of a sudden we’re in favor of giving
them guns. Maybe they have a point. Why would we be in favor of
giving guns to people who we claim brainwash our kids?

There are a few ways to respond. Maybe they’re right. Then the
answer would be to outlaw public schools. They’ve proven themselves
to be dangerous places. After all, how many home-schooled kids have
been murdered in these recent massacres? Not many. If all these kids
were home-schooled, they might still be alive today.

Besides, there is no Constitutional provision allowing governments
to take money through taxes to be used to finance “education.”
Education is the parents’ responsibility, not the taxpayers’
responsibility.

Of course, liberals would respond that the Connecticut murderer was
home-schooled and try to make an association between those “weird,
socially inept” home-schooled kids and mass murderers. As if
murderers haveneverbeen
the product of government education. Mass murderers’ education
background never mattered to the media until they found one that
they claim was home-schooled. Then suddenly it makes all the
difference in the world.

On the other hand, carrying a gun is a Constitutional and God-given
right. The fact that public schools are government property should
make no difference whether or not law-abiding citizens should be
able to carry a gun. Liberals have as much right to keep and bear
arms as conservatives do. As has been shown, even some liberals in
favor of strict gun control (inconsistently) carry a gun. It’s a
means of self-defense. Why would anyonenotwant
to be able to at least match what criminals use to kill people?

Also, especially in the South, there’s bound to be at least one
conservative on staff at public schools. Let the conservatives carry
if the liberals are too afraid.